Disney Cruise Line’s final summer with just four ships will see it return to both Europe and Alaska while keep two ships at home for the Bahamas and the Caribbean.
For the most part it’s business as usual as Disney Fantasy and Disney Dream will continue their year-round service from Port Canaveral, although Disney Fantasy is offering some alternative itineraries than its usual seven-night sailings.
Disney Wonder will head back to Alaska while the cruise line’s first-ever ship Disney Magic will once again head to Europe returning to Greece for a second season after a five-year hiatus.
Disney Magic’s varied European slate will see the ship visit three new ports of call: the Greek island of Kefalonia, the medieval Scandinavian city of Visby, Sweden and the village of Eidfjord, Norway, which is near the country’s largest national park.
The cruise line will welcome its fifth cruise ship Disney Wish in December 2021, which will begin sailing the following month from Port Canaveral. Two more sister ships to Disney Wish are slated to join the fleet in 2022 and 2023, growing it to seven ships.
Here’s a rundown of what’s on tap for summer 2021 by ship:
Disney Dream: The first of Disney’s newer ships, the 129,690-gross-ton, 4,000-passenger vessel that joined the fleet in 2011 will continue its short-cruise duties with three- and four-night Bahamas sailings from Port Canaveral. It will make a stop at the cruise line’s private Bahamas island Castaway Cay on each sailing, with four-night sailings also visiting Nassau.
Disney Fantasy: The newest of the cruise line’s current fleet and sister ship to Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy will sail mostly seven-night Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises, but also offer a six-night and extended nine-night Caribbean option as well as some three-, four- and five-night Bahamas cruises. One of those will include a double dip of Castaway Cay. The special members-only Disney Vacation Club five-night charter cruise is also slated for Fantasy to sail on June 12, 2021 with bookings not open until May 2, 2020.
Disney Magic: The 83,338-gross-ton, 2,700-passenger ship was the first for the cruise line coming online in 1998. It once again takes on European duties and will sail from May-July in the Mediterranean, and the shift from July-September to the British Isles, Northern Europe, Baltic, Iceland and Norway.
For the first half, it will visit the Greek Isles, Spain and French Riviera. Four voyages ranging from eight to 11 nights will visit Greece. Summer 2020 plans also have it in Greece, which will be the first time since 2015. Those sailings include stops in places like Santorini, Piraeus (near Athens), Mykonos and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Other Mediterranean sailings see it sailing to Naples, Barcelona, Venice, Toulon, France and Civitavecchia near Rome.
Disney Wonder: The second oldest ship in the fleet and sister ship to Disney Magic, Disney Wonder will once again cross the Panama Canal and make its way to Vancouver for a summer of Alaska sailings. The seven-night sailings will visit Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan and Dawes Glacier with one nine-night itinerary heading to Hubbard Glacier, Icy Strait Point, Sitka, Juneau and Ketchikan as well as a shorter five-night cruise to Dawes Glacier and Ketchikan.
Bookings open to the general public on Feb. 28, 2020 at disneycruise.com or by calling 888-325-2500.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com.